US Environmental Protection Agency,2 US Department of Housing and Urban Development,3 National Association of Realtors,4 Smart Growth America,5 Reconnecting America,6 Center for Neighborhood Technology,7 Center for Transit-Oriented Development,8

Here, I review five themes that have emerged from the literature responding to these shifts: guiding principles to achieve sustainable communities; the need for healthier community design; how reshaping suburbs will meet new market challenges; the role of transit, especially TODs, in meeting the demands of the next generation and beyond; and reform

It demonstrates the extent to which all new development could be accommodated on the footprint of existing parking lots.

the time when America’s housing market was dominated by households at their peak income and space needs has run its course.

We might not be able to change federal home ownership subsidies but by raising renter-based subsidies to be on par, at least the playing field would be leveled.

is $6,000 per acre annually in the United States

targeted audiences—scientists, policymakers, environmental advocates, the media, and concerned citizens—who can and will take action to protect the plants and animals that enrich our world, the ecosystems we need to survive, the water we drink, and the air we breathe.

In most metropolitan areas, land values increase over time at least in proportion to population growth, and the higher the land value the more intensively land needs to be used to justify the cost of acquiring the property and redeveloping it.

Between 1987 and 2007, the United States added sixty million people—about 25 percent. During that time, its consumption of land for urban uses increased by about thirty-four million acres—about 66 percent.3